Is it true that the Angel of Death was the last opponent, or last scheduled opponent, for Kevin and Kerry Von Erich and Bruiser Brody?
Kerry: yes. Kevin and Bruiser: definitely not. The eerily ironic fact that Kerry was scheduled to take on Dave “Angel of Death” Sheldon the night after he ended his own life has become the basis for another of those WCCW urban legends that seem to grow and mutate as they’re retold over the years. It’s easy to see how the story about Kevin got started: he was Sheldon’s opponent at the very last World Class card at the Sportatorium on November 23, 1990. But this wasn’t Kevin’s last-ever match; he continued to wrestle sporadically for several more years, finally calling it a career after working a few matches for Jim Crockett’s ill-fated NWA Dallas group in 1994-95. We have no earthly idea how Brody got included in this story, but in fact, Sheldon had already left World Class for the NWA before Bruiser was slain in Puerto Rico. Had Brody lived to return to Dallas, as this YouTube clip proves, his first scheduled opponent would have been Kamala.
